Author: G. CHRISTOPHER DAVIES.
Title: Fishing: A Comprehensive Handbook of the Art, including Sea-Fishing.
Description: London. Dean and Son, Publishers and Factors. 160a Fleet Street, E. C. [no date, but 1890]. Octavo (6 x 4). 64 pp. Text illustrations. The book covers rods, tackle, and bates. And nearly every game fish within the U. K. Part One is devoted to freshwater fishes, part two to sea fishes. There’s nothing particularly noteworthy about the book, except for its scarcity. With the bookplate of Wilbur G. Downs, the American virologist and naturalist and former clinical professor at Yale. The book is bound in colorful pictorial wrappers with titles in white and black. A neat book with colorful images on the front cover. A little foxing on the covers, otherwise it’s nice.

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